Chookshed Challenge

 My August challenge #9 is now complete and I am very happy with how it has turned out. My little sketchbook now feels much more booklike and is lovely to hold. Here are the pictures.

Here is the link to how I made the little book back in 2017 and I am now going to make an effort to finish working into the unfinished pages. Very happy to have this finally done.

September's challenge is #3 and that is this sashiko project. I am not sure why I bought this kit, other than that it was on sale, and have been putting off making it up for a while. But I am going to get it done now and maybe it will come in handy as a Christmas present!

Good luck everyone with your #3's.

Thank you to Deana for organising our challenge - you can see what others are working on here.

The end of August

 And it has, as is usual with all months it seems, come around far too quickly. September 1st tomorrow, the first day of autumn although I must say the mornings recently have already had an autumnal edge to them. We have had rain over the last few days - very welcome rain - and no doubt the grass will be greening up again soon.

I don't seem to have much to share with you today sadly. But it is the end of the month and so the end of another Stitch Journal section. I have not covered much ground this month but the Hundertwasser section is quite intense.

The next section is going to be fun - you can just see the start of it in the picture above. The linen I am working on is a strip cut from a rectangle that was originally a bag - 18" x 18" - with a fold over flap. I am thinking it was originally a nightdress case. The flap was heavily embroidered with whitework flowers and it is these that I am going to be embellishing in September.

Chookshed Challenge

I have made progress this week and am now ready to construct the book cover.

I started the week with this

added gold paint

then enjoyed embellishing with thread and beads

Now I need to add a lining - which requires the machine, so I will need to be in the mood to drag it out from it's hidey hole! Definitely one day this week! Looking forward now to seeing which challenge comes up for September.

Both socks have made progress and are past the heel and on the home straight. Pics next week.

And that is it from me. Hope you all have a good week.

It's EPP Tuesday

I am linking up again with Anthea at Hibiscus Stitches - a linky for all things English Paper Pieced. Do go and see what other people have been working on and link up yourself if you have some EPP to share.

I finished sewing down my tumbling blocks to their background and have now quilted and bagged the piece ready to turn into a book wrap.

I wanted to try out some King Tut quilting thread that I bought with my Hexathon quilt in mind - don't get excited, no chance of that happening for a while - and used it with some loopy wavy line quilting on the book flaps. I am pleased with it - the colours are nice and vibrant, although not so easy to see in my picture!

So now I just need to sew down the flaps and it will be all ready for use.

Here are my swap hexies for the month.

So on the EPP front that is it for me.

This Friday is FNSI, the link is here if you fancy joining in for a nice stitchy evening.

Thank you to everyone who left a comment on my last post - I tried to reply to most of the comments but some may have escaped me! Will Blogger ever sort this problem out or is this our blogging life of the future?
Hope you are having a good week